Women are casualties of the NC General Assembly

4:12 PM,
Oct. 4, 2013

Written by

Robert Madden
OPINION

"Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." Sounds reasonable. Who could disagree?

This year the North Carolina General Assembly did not consider legislation to install this guarantee, known as the Equal Rights Amendment, into the U.S. Constitution. That will happen at a later date.

However, the 2013 legislature made plenty of decisions on issues affecting women - all adversely. Some object to the term "war on women," but most of the casualties of these legislative actions are women. ...